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...column in the New York Times last week, John Tierney claimed that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences rejected University President Lawrence H. Summers because he tried to get us to take undergraduate teaching seriously. Harvard faculty, Tierney claims, refuse to teach freshmen, shunt off their work to low-paid graduate students, and have to be pushed “to teach survey courses and other basics...
...Tierney seems to long for the day when American history courses line up in the catalog in neatly marked packages: 101, “From Exploration to Settlement,” 102, “The Revolution,” 103, “The Early Republic.” And so on. The narrative was familiar and reassuring. The names and dates were chiseled in stone. He is right. The Harvard history department doesn’t teach courses like that. We think our students deserve better...
...chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, wrote in the magazine that an “alliance of frightened souls and hyped-up orators” chased Summers out. The most visible rebuke came on the Op-Ed page of Saturday’s New York Times. Columnist John Tierney cast Summers as a victim of professors with “delicate psyches” who are “accustomed to teaching whatever’s in their latest book.” Frustrated by these and other attacks in the national media that are painting them as reactionary...
...Tierney LeJeune, an LSU sophomore, sat cross-legged across from a three-year-old girl, the daughter of a woman sitting in the shade offered from the coliseum’s massive awnings...
According to Bernard, Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., wrote a letter to the General Accounting Office asking that it conduct a study examining worker misclassification on a national scale...